EXHIBIT 4
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MERCURY FINANCE COMPANY
TO
MELLON BANK, N.A.,
Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of January 1, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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SECTION 1.01. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders; Record Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 1.05. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.13. Legal Holidays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 2.04. Form of Legend for Global Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication . . . . . . 29
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 3.02. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. . . . . . . 33
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 3.05. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange . . . . 35
SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. . . . . . 38
SECTION 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. . . . . . . 39
SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.09. Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. Event of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. . . . . 45
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holder to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. . . . . . . . . . . 52
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . 54
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 6.08. Conflicting Interests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. . . . . . 56
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. . . . . . 60
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. . 62
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders . . . 63
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms . . . . 64
SECTION 8.02. Successor Substituted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders . . . . . 65
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders. . . . . . . 67
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 9.05. Conforming with Trust Indenture Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures . . . . . 68
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 10.03. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust. . . . . . 70
SECTION 10.04. Statement by Officers as to Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 10.05. Existence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 10.06. Limitation on Secured Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 10.07. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 10.08. Waiver of Certain Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 11.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 11.03. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. . . . . . 74
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 11.06. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 11.07. Securities Redeemed in Part. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.01. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
SECTION 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. . . . 77
SECTION 12.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. . . . . . . . . . 78
ARTICLE XIII
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 13.01. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SECTION 13.02. Defeasance and Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SECTION 13.03. Covenant Defeasance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SECTION 13.04. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. . . . . . . 80
SECTION 13.05. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held
in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
SECTION 13.06. Reinstatement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture act of 1939:
TRUST INDENTURE INDENTURE
ACT SECTION SECTION
Section 310 (a)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.09
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.09
(a)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.08
6.10
Section 311 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13
Section 312 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01
7.02
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.02
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.02
Section 313 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03
Section 314 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.04
(a)(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
10.04
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(c)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
(c)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
(c)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
Section 315 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.02
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.14
Section 316 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.01
(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.02
5.12
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.08
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.04
Section 317 (a)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.03
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.03
Section 318 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.07
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TRUST INDENTURE INDENTURE
ACT SECTION SECTION
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
INDENTURE, dated as of January 1, 1997, between MERCURY FINANCE
COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its
principal executive office at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000 and Mellon Bank, N.A., a national banking association,
as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee");
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery
of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its
unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided; and
WHEREAS all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the
purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of
any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this Indenture,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
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(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meaning
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the
term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any
computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting
principles as are generally accepted at the date of this instrument;
(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the
case may be, of this Indenture; and
(5) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.04.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings corresponding to
the foregoing.
"Attributable Debt" means, as of the date of its determination, the
present value (discounted semiannually at an interest rate of 7.0% per annum)
of the obligation of a lessee for rental payments pursuant to any Sale and
Leaseback Transaction (reduced by the amount of the rental obligations of any
sublessee of all or part of the same property) during the remaining term of
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which the lease
relating thereto has been extended), such rental payments not to include
amounts payable by the lessee for maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes,
assessments and similar charges and for contingent rents (such as those based
on sales). In the case of any Sale and Leaseback Transaction in which the
lease is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such rental
payments shall be
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considered for purposes of this definition to be the lesser of (a) the rental
payments to be paid under such Sale and Leaseback Transaction until the first
date (after the date of such determination) upon which it may be so
terminated plus the then applicable penalty upon such termination and (b) the
rental payments required to be paid during the remaining term of such Sale
and Leaseback Transaction (assuming such termination provision is not
exercised).
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the
Company or committee of that board duly authorized to act for it in respect
hereof.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment,
means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day
on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means any obligation to pay rent or
other amounts under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to
use) real or personal property that is required to be classified and
accounted for as a capital lease obligation under generally accepted
accounting principles, and, for the purposes of this Indenture, the amount of
such obligation at any date shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such
date, determined in accordance with such principles.
"Capital Stock", as applied to the stock of any corporation, means
the capital stock of every class whether now or hereafter authorized,
regardless of whether such capital stock shall be limited to a fixed sum or
percentage with respect to the rights of the holders thereof to participate
in dividends and in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of such corporation.
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"Certificate" means a certificate signed by a duly authorized
signatory of the Company and delivered to the Trustee.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, or, if at any time after the execution of this
instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now
assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such
duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or
order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its
Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means at any date, the total
assets appearing on the most recently prepared consolidated balance sheet of
the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the end of a fiscal quarter of the
Company, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, less (a) all current liabilities as shown on such balance sheet
and (b) Intangible assets. "INTANGIBLE ASSETS" means the value (net of any
applicable reserves), as shown on or reflected in such balance sheet, of: (i)
all trade names, trademarks, licenses, patents, copyrights and goodwill; (ii)
organizational and development costs; (iii) deferred charges (other than
prepaid items such as insurance, taxes, interest, commissions, rents and
similar items and tangible assets being amortized); and (iv) unamortized debt
discount and expense, less unamortized premium.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee
in New York, New York at which its corporate trust business is administered.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company,
joint-stock company or business trust.
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"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.03.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.02.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series
issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act
as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
applicable statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to
time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.
"Finance Business" means (1) the small loan, personal finance,
consumer finance or instalment credit business (including the business of
making collateral loans secured by credit obligations or real or personal
property), (2) the sales finance business and the business of purchasing
notes and accounts receivable (whether or not repayable in installments), (3)
the commercial financing and factoring business as generally conducted,
including the leasing of tangible personal property, and (4) any business
related to or conducted in connection with any business of the character
referred to in the foregoing clauses (1), (2) and (3) other than insurance
underwriting.
"Finance-Related Insurance Business" means the business of (1)
insuring articles and merchandise the sale or leasing of which is financed in
the ordinary course of the Finance Business, and (2) insuring the lives of
individuals who are liable for the payment of the amounts owing on such sales
or leases and writing accident and health insurance on such individuals.
"Funded Debt" means any indebtedness maturing more than one year
from the date of issuance thereof, including
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any indebtedness renewable or extendible at the option of the obligor to a
date later than one year from the date of the original issuance thereof.
"Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of
the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 2.04
(or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for such
Securities).
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in
the Security Register.
"Indebtedness" means (a) any liability of any Person (1) for
borrowed money, or under any reimbursement obligation relating to a letter of
credit, or (2) evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or similar instrument
(including a purchase money obligation) given in connection with the
acquisition of any businesses, properties or assets of any kind or with
services incurred in connection with capital expenditures (other than a trade
payable or a current liability arising in the ordinary course of business),
or (3) for the payment of money relating to a Capitalized Lease Obligation,
or (4) for Interest Rate Protection Obligations; (b) any liability of others
described in the preceding clause (a) that the Person has guaranteed or that
is otherwise its legal liability; and (c) any amendment, supplement,
modification, deferral, renewal, extension or refunding of any liability of
the types referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and as it
may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions
hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such
supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental
indenture, respectively. The term "Indenture" shall also include the terms
of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity.
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"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security,
means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Interest Rate Protection Obligations" of any Person means the
obligations of such Person pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person
whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time
to time periodic payments calculated by applying a fixed rate of interest on
a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such
Person calculated by applying a floating rate of interest on the same
notional amount.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940
and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Liens" means any mortgage, lien, pledge, security interest, charge
or encumbrance.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date
on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 5.01(4) or 5.01(5).
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
an employee of or counsel for the Company, or other counsel reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 5.02.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of
the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, EXCEPT:
(1) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
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(2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in
trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying
Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; PROVIDED that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 13.02; and
(4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than
any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been
presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities
are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are
valid obligations of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of
the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon
acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 5.02,
(B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of
a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which
shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined
as contemplated by Section 3.01, (C) the principal amount of a Security
denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be
deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of
such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 3.01, of the
principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in
Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause),
and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
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that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon
any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall
be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith
may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities
and that the pledgee is not the Company or any Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay
the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to any Security, means
the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on
that Security are payable as specified pursuant to this Indenture.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in
exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Security.
"Principal Property" means any land, land improvements, buildings
and associated factory, distribution, laboratory and office equipment
(excluding any products marketed by the Company or any Subsidiary)
constituting a distribution facility, operating facility, manufacturing
facility, development facility, warehouse facility, service facility or
office facility (including any portion thereof), which facility (a) is owned
by or leased to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (b) is located
within the United States and (c) has an acquisition cost plus capitalized
improvements in excess of 0.50% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the
date of such determination, other than (i) any such facility, or portion
thereof, which has been financed by obligations issued by or on behalf of a
State, a Territory or a possession of the
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United States, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, or the
District of Columbia, the interest on which is excludable from gross income
of the holders thereof (other than a "substantial user" of such facility or a
"related Person" as those terms are used in Section 103 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code")) pursuant to the provisions of
Section 103 of the Code (or any similar provision hereafter enacted) as in
effect at the time of issuance of such obligations, (ii) any such facility
which the Board of Directors may by Board Resolution declare is not of
material importance to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a
whole and (iii) any such facility, or portion thereof, owned or leased
jointly or in common with one or more Persons other than the Company and any
Subsidiary and in which the interest of the Company and all Subsidiaries does
not exceed 50%.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for
that purpose pursuant to this Indenture.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means
any officer of the Trustee assigned and authorized by it to administer its
corporate trust matters.
"Restricted Securities" means any shares of the capital stock or
Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary engaged in the Finance
Business or in the Finance-Related Insurance Business, other than a
Subsidiary which either (a) is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction
outside the United States of America, Puerto Rico or Canada, or (b) conducts
a major portion of its business outside the United States of America, Puerto
Rico or Canada.
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any
Person providing for the leasing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
of any Principal Property (whether such Principal Property is now owned or
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hereafter acquired) that has been or is to be sold or transferred by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person, other than (a)
temporary leases for a term, including renewals at the option of the lessee,
of not more than three years; (b) leases between the Company and a Restricted
Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries; and (c) leases of Principal
Property executed by the time of, or within 180 days after the latest of, the
acquisition, the completion of construction or improvement (including any
improvements on property which will result in such property becoming
Principal Property), or the commencement of commercial operation of such
Principal Property.
"Secured Indebtedness" means (a) Indebtedness of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary which is secured by any Lien upon any of its assets and
(b) Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement covering any of its
assets; but "Secured Indebtedness" shall not include any of the following:
(i) Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries
outstanding on January 1, 1997, secured by then existing Liens upon,
or incurred in connection with conditional sales agreements or other
title retention agreements with respect to, any of its assets;
(ii) Indebtedness which is secured by (A) purchase money Liens upon
any assets acquired after January 1, 1997, or (B) Liens placed on any
assets after January 1, 1997, during construction or improvement
thereof (including any improvements on any asset) or placed thereon
within 180 days after the later of acquisition, completion of
construction or improvement or the commencement of commercial
operation of such asset or improvement, or (C) conditional sale
agreements or other title retention agreements with respect to
any assets acquired after January 1, 1997, if (in each case referred
to in this subparagraph (ii)) (x) such Lien or agreement secures all
or any part of the Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing
all or any part of the purchase price and (y) such Lien or agreement
does not extend to any assets other than the assets so acquired;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the amount by which the aggregate principal
amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien or agreement exceeds
the cost to the Company or
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such Restricted Subsidiary of the related assets shall be considered
to be "Secured Indebtedness";
(iii) Indebtedness which is secured by Liens on any assets, which
Liens exist at the time of acquisition (by any manner whatsoever) of
such assets by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(iv) Indebtedness of Restricted Subsidiaries owing to the Company
or any other Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of the Company
owing to any Restricted Subsidiary;
(v) In the case of any corporation which becomes (by any manner
whatsoever) a Restricted Subsidiary after January 1, 1997,
Indebtedness which is secured by Liens upon, or conditional sale
agreements or other title retention agreements with respect to, its
assets, which Liens exist at the time such corporation becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary;
(vi) Guarantees by the Company of Secured Indebtedness and
Attributable Debt of any Restricted Subsidiaries and guarantees by a
Restricted Subsidiary of Secured Indebtedness and Attributable Debt
of the Company and any other Restricted Subsidiaries;
(vii) Attributable Debt arising from any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction;
(viii) Indebtedness secured by Liens on assets of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary in favor of the United States of America, any
State, Territory or possession thereof, or the District of Columbia,
or any department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision
of the United States of America or any State, Territory or possession
thereof, or the District of Columbia, or in favor of any other country
or any political subdivision thereof, if such Indebtedness was
incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase
price or the cost of construction of the property subject to such
Lien; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the amount by which the aggregate
principal amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien exceeds the
cost to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary of the related
acquisition or construction shall be considered to be "Secured
Indebtedness";
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(ix) Indebtedness secured by Liens on aircraft, airframes or aircraft
engines, aeronautic equipment or computers and electronic data
processing equipment; and
(x) The replacement, extension or renewal (or successive
replacements, extensions or renewals) of any Indebtedness (in whole or
in part) excluded from the definition of "Secured Indebtedness" by
subparagraphs (i) through (ix) above; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no Lien
securing, or conditional sale or title retention agreement with
respect to, such Indebtedness shall extend to or cover any assets,
other than such assets which secured the Indebtedness so replaced,
extended or renewed (plus improvements on or to any such assets);
PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, that to the extent that such replacement,
extension or renewal increases the principal amount of Indebtedness
secured by such Lien or is in a principal amount in excess of the
principal amount of Indebtedness excluded from the definition of
"Secured Indebtedness" by subparagraphs (i) through (ix) above, the
amount of such increase or excess shall be considered to be "Secured
Indebtedness".
In no event shall the foregoing provisions be interpreted to mean or their
operation to cause the same Indebtedness to be included more than once in the
calculation of "Secured Indebtedness" as that term is used in this Indenture.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any applicable
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Securitization" shall mean the transfer or pledge of assets or
interests in assets to a trust, partnership, corporation or other entity, which
transfer or pledge is funded by such entity in whole or in part by the issuance
of instruments or securities that are paid principally from the cash flow
derived from such assets or interests in assets.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.05.
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"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means any corporation of which, at the time of
determination, the Company and/or one or more Subsidiaries owns or controls
directly or indirectly more than 50% of the shares of voting stock. "WHOLLY
OWNED", when used with reference to a Subsidiary, means a Subsidiary of which
all of the outstanding capital stock is owned by the Company or by one or more
wholly owned Subsidiaries. "VOTING STOCK", when used with reference to a
Subsidiary, means stock of the class or classes having general voting power
under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of
directors, managers or trustees of such corporation provided that, for the
purposes hereof, stock which carries only the right to vote conditionally on the
happening of an event shall not be considered voting stock whether or not such
event shall have happened.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and any
applicable statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder,
and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect
to Securities of that series.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in
Section 13.04.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company, means any
vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words
added before or after the title "vice president".
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SECTION 1.02. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture
Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of a
Certificate, if to be given by an authorized signatory of the Company, or an
Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth
in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates
provided for in Section 10.04) shall include:
(1) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him
to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(2) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 1.03. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE. In any case
where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that
they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it
relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company, stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
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Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 1.04. ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES. Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or
permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing;
and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument
or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are
herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such
instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a
writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee
and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or
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in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done
by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Security.
The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to
give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series; PROVIDED that
the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this
paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any
notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph.
If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no
other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date; PROVIDED that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the
applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record
date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant
to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly
after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its
own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by
Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in
writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner
set forth in Section 1.06.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to
join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any
declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 5.02, (iii) any request to
institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.07(2) or (iv) any direction
referred to in Section 5.12, in each case with respect to Securities of such
series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of
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Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other
Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or
direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
PROVIDED that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or
prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing
in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a
new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been
set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set
shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no
effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render
ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is
taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date,
the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given
to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant
series in the manner set forth in Section 1.06.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
party hereto which sets such record date may designate any day as the
"Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any
earlier or later day; PROVIDED that no such change shall be effective unless
notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto
in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the
manner set forth in Section 1.06, on or prior to the existing Expiration
Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record
date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record
date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such
record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right
to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the
applicable record date.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take
any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with
regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one
or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
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SECTION 1.05. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders
or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon,
given or furnished to, or filed with:
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal executive
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
SECTION 1.06. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such
event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than
the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any),
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to
Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers
of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall
not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance
upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the
Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose
hereunder.
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SECTION 1.07. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture
Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this
Indenture, the provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the provision of this
Indenture shall control.
SECTION 1.08. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Article
and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience
only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 1.09. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.10. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.11. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE. Nothing in this Indenture or
in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than
the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.12. GOVERNING LAW. This Indenture and the Securities
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of
New York.
SECTION 1.13. LEGAL HOLIDAYS. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be
a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of
any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in
lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any)
need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on
the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force
and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at
the Stated Maturity,
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and, if such payment is made, no interest shall accrue on such payment for
the period from and after any such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or
Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. FORMS GENERALLY. The Securities of each series shall
be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form
as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other
marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or
Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
SECTION 2.02. FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY. [Insert any legend required
by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
MERCURY FINANCE COMPANY
No. $
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Mercury Finance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing
under the laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company", which term includes
any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received, hereby promises to pay to , or
registered assigns, the principal sum of Dollars on
[if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity,
insert--, and to pay interest thereon from or from the
most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, semiannually on and in each
year, commencing , at the rate of % per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable,
insert--; PROVIDED that any principal and premium, and any such installment of
interest which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to
the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable),
from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for
payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand] The interest so payable,
and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the or
(whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding
such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be set
by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture].
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert--] The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall
bear interest at the rate of % per
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annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made
available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be
payable on demand. [Any such interest on overdue principal or premium which is
not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to the
extent that the payment of such interest on interest shall be legally
enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so demanded is
paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall be
payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable,
insert--any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in , in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable insert--;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be
made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register].
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this
Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be
duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
MERCURY FINANCE COMPANY
by
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Attest:
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SECTION 2.03. FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY. This Security is one of
a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the
"Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an
Indenture, dated as of January 1, 1997 (herein called the "Indenture", which
term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the
Company and Mellon Bank, N.A., as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which
term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is
hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the
Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is
one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert--,
limited in aggregate principal amount to $ ].
[If applicable, insert--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, [(if applicable,
insert--(1) on in each year commencing with the year and
ending with the year through operation of the sinking fund for
this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and
(2)] at any time [if applicable, insert--on or after , 19 ], as a
whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption
Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if
applicable, insert--on or before , % and if redeemed] during
the 12-month period beginning , of the years indicated,
YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE
---- ---------------- ---- ----------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to % of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such
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redemption [if applicable, insert--(whether through operation of the sinking
fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest
installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates
referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on in
each year commencing with the year and ending with the year
through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices
for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages
of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if
applicable, insert--on or after ], as a whole or in part, at the
election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than
through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the
principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the
12-month period beginning of the years indicated,
REDEMPTION PRICE FOR
REDEMPTION PRICE FOR REDEMPTION OTHERWISE
REDEMPTION THROUGH THAN THROUGH
OPERATION OF THE OPERATION OF THE
YEAR SINKING FUND SINKING FUND
---- ------------ ------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to % of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]
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[If applicable, insert--Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may
not, prior to , redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated
by [if applicable, insert--Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of,
or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or
indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company
(calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less
than % per annum.]
[If applicable, insert--The sinking fund for this series provides for
the redemption (on and ending with the year and ending with the year of
[if applicable insert--not less than $ ("mandatory sinking fund") and
not more than $ aggregate principal amount of Securities of
this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company
otherwise than through [if applicable, insert--mandatory] sinking fund payments
may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert--mandatory] sinking
fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert--, in the
inverse order in which they become due].]
[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert--In the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If applicable, insert--The Indenture contains provisions for
defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or]
[certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this
Security], [in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in
the Indenture.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security,
insert--If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall
occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert--If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
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provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to--insert formula for
determining the amount. Upon payment of (i) the amount of principal so
declared due and payable and (ii) interest on any overdue principal, premium
and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of
the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the
Securities of this series shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to
be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee
with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified
percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time
Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to
waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and
certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver
is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the
Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding
with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee
or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously
given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in
principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding
shall have made a written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee
reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the
time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have
failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not
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apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest
hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall affect or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in
the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the
Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of
transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the
principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by the
Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to
the designated transferee or transferees.
The securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $[ ] and any integral multiple
thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like
aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of
a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering
the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the
owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
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All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 2.04. FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities
evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED
IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS
SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY
PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
SECTION 2.05. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. The
Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred
to in the Indenture.
MELLON BANK N.A.,
As Trustee
By
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
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(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any
other series);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05,
3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 and except for any Securities which, pursuant
to Section 3.03, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder);
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a security of the series
shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of
the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such
interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such
interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and
interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the
series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in
which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be
evidenced;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at which
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and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series
shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to
such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(10) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on
any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts
shall be determined;
(11) if other than the currency of the United States of America,
the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal
of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall
be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in
the currency of the United States of America for any purpose,
including for purposes of the definition of "Outstanding" in
Section 1.01;
(12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any
Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the
Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or
currency units other than that or those in which such Securities
are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency
units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such
Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the
periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such
election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in
which such amount shall be determined);
(13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall
be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.02;
(14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or
more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be
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deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such
date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the
principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any
Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to
be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in
any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the
principal amount shall be determined);
(15) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or
any specified part shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 13.02
and that certain covenants of the Company shall be defeasible
pursuant to Section 13.03 and, if other than by a Board Resolution,
the manner in which any election by the Company to defease such
Securities or covenants shall be evidenced;
(16) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be
issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such
Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be
borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that
set forth in Section 2.04 and any circumstances in addition to or
in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of
Section 3.05 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in
whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of
such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the
name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof;
(17) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which
applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right
of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to
declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to
Section 5.02;
(18) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in
Article X which applies to Securities of the series; and
(19) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of
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this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 9.01(5)).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant
to the Board Resolution referred to above or indenture supplemental hereto
referred to above.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
SECTION 3.02. DENOMINATIONS. The Securities of each series shall be
issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such
denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. In the
absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations
of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 3.03. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents or Assistant Vice Presidents, or Treasurer under its corporate
seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant
Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be
manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at the time of execution the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased
to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by
the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order
for the authentication and delivery of such
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Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating such Securities,
and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in
relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating,
(1) that the form of such Securities does not violate or conflict
with the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) that the terms of such Securities do not violate or conflict
with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute
valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights
and to general equity principles.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at
one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the record of action, the
Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required thereby at or prior
to the authentication of each Security of such series, if such documents
(with appropriate modifications) are delivered at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to
be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Notwithstanding the
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foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall
deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section
3.09, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never
to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.04. TEMPORARY SECURITIES. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon
Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary
Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the
temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such
series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that
series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any
one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more
definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and
of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series
and tenor.
SECTION 3.05. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee
a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or
agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide
for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The
Trustee is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the
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purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a
series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that
series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of
like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and
of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustees
shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder is entitled
to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities,
other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving
any transfer.
If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor)
are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue,
register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of
that series
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and specified tenor as the case may be) during a period beginning at the
opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of
redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 11.03
and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption
in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being
redeemed in part.
The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only
to Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall
be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such
Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such
Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each
such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all
purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no
Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities
registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in
part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless
(A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or
(ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the
Exchange Act, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an
Event of Default with respect to such Global Security or (C) there
shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu
of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security
for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all
Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion
thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for
such Global Security shall direct.
(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration
of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security
or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section
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3.04, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and
delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless
such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
SECTION 3.06. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES. If
any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly
issued hereunder.
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The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 3.07. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is
not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
(herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to
the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such
Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted
Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the
date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate
amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or
shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited
to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee
shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than
10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than
10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify
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the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be
given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set
forth in Section 1.06, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such
Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of
the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment
shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 3.08. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. Prior to due presentment of
a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such
Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to
Section 3.07) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.09. CANCELLATION. All Securities surrendered for
payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit
against any sinking fund
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payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company
may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any
other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold,
and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee.
No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Securities canceled as provided in this Section except as expressly permitted
by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be
disposed of in accordance with the Trustee's customary practices unless
otherwise directed by a Company Order.
SECTION 3.10. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series,
interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving
rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly
provided for) upon the Trustee's receipt of a Company Request to that effect,
and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.06 and
(ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited
in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust,
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as provided in Section 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one
year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in
trust money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date,
as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07, the
obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14
and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee
under Section 4.02 and the last paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive.
SECTION 4.02. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with
the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust (without
liability for
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the payment of interest thereon or the investment thereof) and applied by it,
in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to
the payment of the principal and any premium and interest, either directly or
through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying
Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, for
whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. EVENT OF DEFAULT. "Event of Default", wherever used
herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether
it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that
series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any
Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as
due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty
of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included
in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities
other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach
for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and
the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding
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Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or
breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is
a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) a default by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness
for money borrowed (including a default with respect to Securities
of any series other than that series) in excess of $20,000,000,
under any capitalized lease which is treated under generally accepted
accounting principles as a consolidated liability in excess of
$20,000,000 or under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which
there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any
indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $20,000,000, whether such
indebtedness or liability now exists or shall hereafter be created,
which default (i) consists of the failure to pay any indebtedness or
liability upon its stated maturity or (ii) shall have resulted in such
indebtedness or liability becoming or being declared due and payable
prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and
payable, without such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled,
or such indebtedness or liability having been discharged, within a
period of 30 days after there shall have been given, by registered
or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company
and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying
such default and requiring the Company to cause such acceleration to
be rescinded or annulled or cause such indebtedness or liability to be
discharged, and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; provided, however, that, subject to the provisions of
Sections 6.01 and 6.02, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of such default unless (A) a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee shall have actual knowledge of such default or (B) the
Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company,
from any Holder, from the holder of any such indebtedness or from the
trustee under any such applicable debt instrument; or
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in
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respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company a
bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or
in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or State law,
or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree
or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and
in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(7) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding
to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding
against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or
State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to
the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the
making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company
in furtherance of any such action; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of
that series (subject to any applicable cure or grace periods).
SECTION 5.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section
5.01(6) or 5.01(7)) with
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respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may
declare the principal amount of all Securities of that series (or, if any
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the
terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to
the Company (and to the Trustee, if given by Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.01(6) or 5.01(7) with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series
(or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified
by the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or
other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due
and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect
to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and
the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of
that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration
of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in
such Securities, and
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(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and all amounts
owing the Trustee under Section 6.07; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that
series which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.03. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT
BY TRUSTEE. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues
for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue
principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of
collection, including all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.07.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series
occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid
of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.
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SECTION 5.04. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. In case of any
judicial proceeding relative to the Company, its property or its creditors,
the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the
Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee
allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be
authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian,
receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar
official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder
to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall
consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the
Trustee any amount due it under Section 6.07.
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for
the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member
of a creditors' or other similar committee.
SECTION 5.05. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and
any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of all
amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.07, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
SECTION 5.06. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED. Any money collected by
the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order,
at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of
such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon
presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if
only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
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FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 6.07; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for
principal and any premium and interest, respectively.
SECTION 5.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS. No Holder of any Security of any
series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or
otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request
to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred
in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding;
and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of,
any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to
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enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided
and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
SECTION 5.08. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDER TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM AND INTEREST. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture,
the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and
(subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the respective Stated
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the
Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder.
SECTION 5.09. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. If the Trustee or
any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under
this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder,
then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding,
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and
respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 5.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. Except as otherwise
provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition
to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing
at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right
or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion
or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER. No delay or omission of
the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or
remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders may be
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exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12. CONTROL BY HOLDERS. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series;
PROVIDED that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) such direction shall not involve the Trustee in personal liability
or be unjustly prejudicial to Holders not joining therein.
SECTION 5.13. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. The Holders of not less than
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may
on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on
any Security of such series; or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent
or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.14. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS. In any suit for the enforcement
of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the
Trustee or any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court
may
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require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the
costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in
the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; PROVIDED
that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to
authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an
assessment in any suit instituted by the Trustee or the Holders of 10% in
aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any series.
SECTION 5.15. WAIVER OF USURY, STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS. The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of
any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. The duties and
responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by this Indenture and
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured
to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 6.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. If a default occurs hereunder with
respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of
Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent
provided
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by the Trust Indenture Act; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in the case of any
default of the character specified in Section 5.01(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at
least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section,
the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
series.
SECTION 6.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Subject to the provisions
of Section 6.01:
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any
resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced
by a Board Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee
(unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the
absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses
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and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such
further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may
see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further
inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books,
records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
attorney; and
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents
or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any
misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.04. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the
Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations
as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.
Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the
use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. MAY HOLD SECURITIES. The Trustee, any Authenticating
Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the
Company or the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become
the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13,
may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it
were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or
such other agent.
SECTION 6.06. MONEY HELD IN TRUST. Money held by the Trustee in
trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on or
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investment of any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed
with the Company, and any interest on or investment of any money received by
it shall be for the exclusive benefit of the Company.
SECTION 6.07. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation
of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any
provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation
and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except
to the extent that any such expense, disbursement or advance may be
attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to defend and hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or
trusts hereunder or the performance of its duties hereunder, including
the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent any such
loss, liability or expense may be attributable to its negligence or
bad faith.
The Company's payment obligations pursuant to this Section 6.07 shall
survive the discharge of this Indenture.
"Trustee" for purposes of this Section 6.07 includes the Trustee,
every predecessor Trustee, any Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent, Registrar
or other agent of the Company or the Trustee appointed hereunder, but the
negligence or bad faith of any such person shall not affect the rights of any
other such person under this Section 6.07.
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SECTION 6.08. CONFLICTING INTERESTS. If the Trustee has or shall
acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and
in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust
Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being
a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one
series.
SECTION 6.09. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. There shall at
all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Securities of each series, which may be the Trustee hereunder for Securities
of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital
and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and
to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and
surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus
as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any
time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article.
SECTION 6.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR. No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance
of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11.
The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If
the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11
shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving
of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
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The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities
of any series, with or without cause, by Act of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, or by notice
from the Company delivered to the Trustee and to the Holders.
If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.08 after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or
by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged
a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose
of rehabilitation,conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 5.14, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect
to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason,
with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with
respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that
any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only
one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. If, within
one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence
of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the
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Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that
extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have
been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in
the manner required by Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all
Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 1.06.
Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 6.11. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR. In case of the
appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities,
every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment
of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee
and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company,
the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or
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more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1)
shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer
and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to
all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to
which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee;
and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the
extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or
those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but,
on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to
the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates.
Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments as may reasonably be required for more fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such
rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding
paragraph, as the case may be.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
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SECTION 6.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder;
PROVIDED such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under
this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have
been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any
successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating
Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so
authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 6.13. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 6.14. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. The Trustee may
appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant
to Section 3.06, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes
as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in
this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall
be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by
an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on
behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent
shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America,
any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not
less than $50,000,000 and subject to
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supervision or examination by Federal or state authorities. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this
Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating
Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency
or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be
an Authenticating Agent; PROVIDED such corporation shall be otherwise
eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time
such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.06 to all
Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating
Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and
duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named
as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be
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entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.07.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred
to in the Indenture.
MELLON BANK, N.A.,
As Trustee
by
As Authenticating Agent
by
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Authorized Officer
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF
HOLDERS. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(1) semiannually, not later than March 31 and September 30 in each
year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the
preceding March 16 or September 15, as the case may be, and
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than
15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
EXCLUDING from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
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SECTION 7.02. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished
to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of
Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The
Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.01 upon
receipt of a new list so furnished.
The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.03. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE. The Trustee shall transmit to
Holders such reports, if any, concerning the Trustee and its actions under this
Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
A copy of each such report shall at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 7.04. REPORTS BY COMPANY. The Company shall file with the
Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents
and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such
Act; PROVIDED that any such information, documents or reports required to be
filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to
be filed with the Commission.
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ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.01. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person or
convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) either (a) the Company shall be the continuing corporation or
(b) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by
conveyance, transfer, or lease, the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust,
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly
assume, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment
of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and
the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating
any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or any
Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of such transaction as having
been incurred at the time of such transaction), no Event of Default, and no
event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event
of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
(3) the Company or such Person has delivered to the Trustee a
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, as to which opinion counsel may rely
on the Officer's Certificate as to factual matters, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for or relating to such transaction have been
satisfied.
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SECTION 8.02. SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED. Upon any consolidation or
merger, or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the
Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 8.01, the
successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or the successor Person to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter, except in the
case of a lease, the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture, the Agency Agreement and the Securities.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into
one or more indentures supplemental hereto, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be
for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events
of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included
solely for the benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to
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permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable
or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons,
or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated
form; or
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities; PROVIDED that any
such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any
Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental
indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the
rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or
(B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding;
or
(6) to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of
Section 10.06 or otherwise; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of
the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements
of Section 6.11; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture; PROVIDED that such action pursuant
to this Clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders
of Securities of any series in any material respect; or
(10) to add to or change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture
as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the
Trust Indenture Act, provided such action shall not adversely affect the
interest of Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.
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SECTION 9.02. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS. With
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series under this Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon
the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an
Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due
and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.02, or change any Place of Payment when, or the coin
or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.10, except to increase any percentages set forth therein or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified
or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this clause shall not be deemed
to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and
Section 10.10
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in accordance with the requirements of Sections 6.11 and 9.01(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.03. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to
Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to,
enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.04. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a
part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby.
SECTION 9.05. CONFORMING WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.06. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form
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approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series
so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to
any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding
Securities of such series.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST. The
Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that
it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on
the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and
this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Company will
maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to
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the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the
location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST. If
the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any
series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or
any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and
hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient
to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such
sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided
and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the
Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the
continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the
Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in
respect of the Securities of that series.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
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Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from
such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money,
and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
SECTION 10.04. STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT.
(1) The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, a
Certificate stating whether or not, after a review under each signer's
supervision of the activities of the Company during such year and of the
Company's performance under this Indenture, to the best knowledge, based on such
review, of the signers thereof, the Company has fulfilled all its material
obligations under this Indenture throughout such year, and, if there has been a
default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each default and
the nature and status thereof.
(2) When any event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, or if the
Trustee or any Holder or the Trustee for or the holder of any other evidence of
Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary gives any notice or takes any
other action with respect to a claimed default, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee by registered or certified mail or by telegram, telex or facsimile
transmission a Certificate specifying such event, notice or other action within
five Business Days of its actual notice of such default.
SECTION 10.05. EXISTENCE. Subject to Article VIII, the Company will
do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force
and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such
right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the
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business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in
any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 10.06. LIMITATION ON SECURED DEBT. The Company will not
create, assume, incur or guarantee, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to create, assume, incur or guarantee, any Secured Indebtedness
without making provision whereby all the Securities shall be secured equally and
ratably with (or prior to) such Secured Indebtedness (together with, if the
Company shall so determine, any other Indebtedness of the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created which is not
subordinate to the Securities) so long as such Secured Indebtedness shall be
outstanding unless such Secured Indebtedness, when added to (a) the aggregate
amount of all Secured Indebtedness then outstanding (not including in this
computation Secured Indebtedness if the Securities are secured equally and
ratably with (or prior to) such Secured Indebtedness and further not including
in this computation, any Secured Indebtedness which is concurrently being
retired and (b) the aggregate amount of all Attributable Debt then outstanding
pursuant to Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into by the Company After
January 1, 1997, or entered into by a Restricted Subsidiary after January 1,
1997 or, if later, the date on which it became a Restricted Subsidiary (not
including in this computation any Attributable Debt which is concurrently being
retired), would not exceed 5% of total assets. In addition, the Company may
create, assume, incur or guarantee Secured Indebtedness, in an aggregate amount
not exceeding at any one time outstanding 20% of its finance receivables, in
connection with one or more Securitizations.
SECTION 10.07. LIMITATION ON SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS. The
Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into
any Sale and Leaseback Transaction unless (a) the sum of (i) the Attributable
Debt to be outstanding pursuant to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, (ii) all
Attributable Debt then outstanding pursuant to all other Sale and Leaseback
Transactions entered into by the Company after January 1, 1997, or entered into
by a Restricted Subsidiary after January 1, 1997 or, if later, the date on which
it became a Restricted Subsidiary, and (iii) the aggregate of all Secured
Indebtedness then outstanding (not including in this computation Secured
Indebtedness if the Securities are secured equally and ratably with (or prior
to) such Secured Indebtedness and any Secured Indebtedness issued in connection
with one or more Securitizations as permitted by
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Section 10.06) would not exceed 5% of total assets or (b) an amount equal to
the greater of (i) the net proceeds to the Company or the Restricted
Subsidiary of the sale of the Principal Property sold and leased back
pursuant to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and (ii) the amount of
Attributable Debt to be outstanding pursuant to such Sale and Leaseback
Transaction is applied to the retirement of Funded Debt of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Funded Debt which is subordinate to the
Securities or which is owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiaries)
within 180 days after the consummation of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
SECTION 10.08. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series, the
Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any
particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in
any covenant provided pursuant to Section 3.01(18), 9.01(2) or 9.01(7) for the
benefit of the Holders of such series or Sections 10.06 and 10.07, if before the
time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders,
either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with
such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect
such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and,
until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the
duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall
remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. Securities of any series
which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in
accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 11.02. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. The election
of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution
or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for
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such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption
affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 60 days prior
to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of
the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if
applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of
any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on
such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 11.03. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED. If
less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the
Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless
such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously
called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion
of the principal amount of any Security of such series; PROVIDED that the
unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series
and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only
a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called
for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in the case of any
Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting a single Security, whether such Security is
to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in
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part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be
in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum
authorized denomination) for such Security.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 11.04. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption shall be
given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be
redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price and any accrued interest;
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such
Securities the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed and, if a single Security is to be partially redeemed, the
principal amount of such Security to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and any
accrued interest will become due and payable upon each such Security
to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to
accrue on and after said date (unless the Company shall default in the
payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest);
(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and any accrued
interest; and
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(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
SECTION 11.05. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE. Prior to any Redemption
Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 11.06. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security
for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by
the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is
on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 3.07.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the Security.
SECTION 11.07. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART. Any Security which is to
be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor
(with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof
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or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security
without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and
of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in
an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed
portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for
such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of any Securities is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities, the cash amount of
any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in
Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of
Securities as provided for by the terms of such Securities.
SECTION 12.02. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any
previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a
series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant
to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional
sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any
Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such
Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities;
PROVIDED that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so
credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the
Securities so to be redeemed, for
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redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such
sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 12.03. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND. Not less
than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the
Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the
amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to
the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 12.02 and
will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less
than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall
select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the
manner specified in Section 11.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to
be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided
in Section 11.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in
Sections 11.06 and 11.07.
ARTICLE XIII
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 13.01. COMPANY'S OPTION TO EFFECT DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT
DEFEASANCE. The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have
Section 13.02 or Section 13.03 applied to any Securities or any series of
Securities, as the case may be, designated pursuant to Section 3.01 as being
defeasible pursuant to such Section 13.02 or 13.03, in accordance with any
applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 3.01 and upon compliance
with the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such election shall be
evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01 for such Securities.
SECTION 13.02. DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE. Upon the Company's exercise
of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any
series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall be deemed to have
been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities as provided
in this Section on and after the
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date the conditions set forth in Section 13.04 are satisfied (hereinafter
called "Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the
Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness
represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such
Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the
following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely
from the trust fund described in Section 13.04 and as more fully set forth in
such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and
interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company's
obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06,
10.02 and 10.03, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this
Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option
(if any) to have Section 13.03 applied to such Securities.
SECTION 13.03. COVENANT DEFEASANCE. Upon the Company's exercise of
its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or any series
of Securities, as the case may be, (1) the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Section 8.01, Sections 10.05 and 10.07, and any covenants
provided pursuant to Section 3.01(18), 9.01(2) or 9.01(7) for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in
Sections 5.01(4) (with respect to any of Section 8.01(3), Sections 10.06 through
10.07, inclusive, and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 3.01(18),
9.01(2) or 9.01(7)), 5.01(5) and 5.01(8) shall be deemed not to be or result in
an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in
this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 13.04 are
satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such
Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may
omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent
so specified in the case of Section 5.01(4)), whether directly or indirectly by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any
reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any
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other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall
be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 13.04. CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE. The
following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 13.02 or
Section 13.03 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
requirements contemplated by Section 6.09 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations
which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect
thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day
before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a
combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium
and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used
herein, "U.S. Government Obligation" means (x) any security which is (i) a
direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or
(ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an
agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation
by the United States of America, which in either case (i) or (ii), is not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any
depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation
which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the
account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any
such payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government
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Obligation which is so specified and held; PROVIDED that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction
from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any
amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government
Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by
such depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 13.02 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that
(A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument,
there has been a change in applicable Federal income tax law, in either
case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall
confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or
loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance
and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at
the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and
discharge were not to occur.
(3) In the event of an election to have Section 13.03 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant
Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at
the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance
were not to occur.
(4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other
Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange,
will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other
Securities
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shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with
regard to any such event specified in Section 5.01(6) and (7), at any time
on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being
understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after
such 90th day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act.
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement
or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the
trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be
registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee a Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.
SECTION 13.05. DEPOSITED MONEY AND U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE
HELD IN TRUST; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Subject to the provisions of the last
paragraph of Section 10.03, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including
the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 13.04 in
respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in
accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of
such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 13.04 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge
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which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any
money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 13.04
with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which
would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 13.06. REINSTATEMENT. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is
unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any
Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental
authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then
the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company
has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 13.02 or 13.03 shall be
revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this
Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or
Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to
Section 13.05 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the
Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in
trust.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
MERCURY FINANCE COMPANY
by
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Attest:
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MELLON BANK, N.A.
[SEAL] by
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STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On the day of , before me personally came ,
to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is
of Mercury Finance Company one of the corporations described in and which
executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he
signed his name thereto by like authority.
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STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On the day of , before me personally came ,
to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is
of Mellon Bank, N.A., one of the corporations described in and which
executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he
signed his name thereto by like authority.
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